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    surroundings while driving is very dangerous and can often lead to a collision with other motorists and pedestrians, which can lead to serious injury to those people and even death. According to a summary of the statistical findings on traffic safety by the U.S. Department of Transportation published in April, 2014, "Ten percent of fatal crashes, eighteen percent of injury crashes, and sixteen percent of all motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2012 were reported as distraction-affected crashes" and…

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    get out of the way of the oncoming traffic? Did the accident investigation find black tire marks on Elm Street where the defendant started his turn? Was there any evidence that the defendant tried to slow down before he…

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    assumptions can be grouped into three scenarios I will mention two of them: 1. Automated vehicles with Imperfect systems. Any system ever engineered has occasionally failed. In the realm of automated vehicle, Fraichard and Kuffner list four reasons for a collision: hardware failures, software bugs, perceptual errors, and reasoning errors…

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    Traffic lights and other cars will impede your progress. It's extremely difficult to maintain a consistent high speed no matter how aggressively you drive. However, the consequences of a car accident during the times you are traveling fast can be quite severe. The destructive energy of a collision with a solid object goes up with the square of your speed. On interstate highways with light traffic, you can maintain a consistent high speed. However…

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    The RAV4 Hybrid is built with Safety Sense that combines the Pre-Collision System and Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist. Dynamic Radar Cruise Control helps you avoid getting too close surrounding traffic on crowded highways. The 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid for sale near Ellensburg offers available blind spot monitor and cross-traffic alert helps you better monitor vehicles on crowded highways. The Star Safety System is merges features such as Vehicle…

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    Autonomous Car Technology

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    back in 19th century. Most of the car today has build in computer to help drivers for controlling their car, and also safety feature to protect the driver. The example of current safety technology in a car is lane departure warning sensor, forward collision avoidance system, autonomous braking, parking assist and adaptive cruise control. These technology can prevent the driver for having an accident, since the computer will automatically take control of the when it sense that an accident will…

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    each time frame into time slots. Each time slot is then assigned to one of the nodes. Whenever a node has a packet to send, it transmits the packet’s during its assigned time slot in the revolving TDM frame. (Kurose 448) Advantage of TDM is no collisions and each node gets dedicate transmission rate during each time frame. A disadvantage is nodes must always wait for its turn in the transmission sequence even if it is the only device with a frame to transmit. FDM divides the channel into…

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    While it is challenging to work out the financial result of return on investment in social marketing like this, it is possible to measure an indirect impact of increased usage of winter tires, including low rate of casualties in traffic collisions during the winter and ultimate reduction in healthcare expenditure. The message strategy to communicate the benefits of winter tires and use of mass communication channels such as, newspapers, TV, radio, etc. is proposed in this social marketing…

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    The Pinto One the controversial news that came out about the Ford Pintos in 1972 was the explosions that would occur involving a low-speed rear-end collision. Also, Accident investigations discovered that victims of the rear end collisions had few trauma injuries because of the impacts, but had burned to death when the vehicles burst into fire. Additionally, after the accidents due to the doors becoming jammed shut. A few people had gotten trapped inside their cars and were unable to escape…

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    Pros Of A Driverless Car

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    video cameras inside the car. The software also has decision-making processes and controls the actions in driver-control systems such as steering and brakes. The car’s software connects to Google Maps for advance notice of things like landmarks and traffic signs and lights. There are many pro effects to the driverless car. Laura Keating from Tech Times states, "The cars use the sensing capabilities and software to choose…

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